Thursday, August 23, 2012

Quote of the Day

For the most part, your television is not consciously attempting to alter your political beliefs. It is mainly transmitting an ethos in which greed is not only bad but the main wellspring of evil, authority figures of all kinds are often untrustworthy, sexual freedom is absolute, and social equality of all kinds is paramount. Within the moral universe of this culture, the merits of these values are self-evident. But to the large bloc of America that does not share this ethos, it looks like a smug, self-perpetuating collusion against them.

Source: Jonathan Chait, "The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Is on Your Screen" New York Magazine. 19 August 2012.  Accessed 23 August 2012. Available: http://nymag.com/news/features/chait-liberal-movies-tv-2012-8/